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Glance at Japan" General James Harrison |
Wilson, of the United States Army, has |
given us deeply interesting and thor |
oughly instructive report. General Wilson |
went to the Orient to ascertain il China is !.
ready for railroads. whether if they are
built they will pay; whether the construc-
ton could be secured by Americans, and |;
under terms and conditions to justify the
investment. He made several journeys
into the interior of China, as far as beyond |
the Yellow river. In one of these he
travelled over fifteen hundred miles on
horseback through the provinces of Chilli,
Honau and Shantung. He visited the |
capitol of Shantung and also Kufu, the |
home and burial place of Confucius, and !
climbed the sacred mountain Taishan. He
spent month in Japan, travelling through |
what be pronounces 1.-The most beautiful |
country in the world" He spent some
time in Formosa and other provinces, and !
reached America after an absence of
almost one year. He was the guest of high |
officials, and was afforded exceptional op
portunities for observation, and 10 gain re-
liable information. One of the objects he
has attained in this work is the presenta-
ton of the facts regarding China, before
foreign influences bore upon it, what
foreigners have done for China, and what
remains for them to do. He concludes
that China is going to build railroads,
open new mines and erect furnaces and
rolling mills, but not until they can be
shown that this can be done with their own
money and their own labor, under direc
| ton of foreign experts. who will treat them
fairly and honestly; :l2mo., cloth. ID. Ap-
pleton e. Co., New York.
Natural Law in the Business World"
by Henry Wood. Boston, Lee & Shepard
New York, Charles T. Dillingham; is the
title of small new volume, in which the
author does not lay claim to new discoy-
| cries or original theories in the domain of
political economy. He claims, however
that it is an honest effort to trace out the
working and application of natural law, as
it runs through the economic and social
fabric, in plain, simple and practical
manner. The light of natural law is ap-
piled to the live, social and economic topics
which are now attracting so much atten-
| ton. 1t aims to expose the abuses and
| evils which masquerade under the banner
of labor, and the bad results of class preju-
dice and antagonism. Labor combinations,
and their effect on the laborer socialistic
tendencies; excess of economic and rail
road legislation; the distribution of wealth.
| principles governing corporations and rail-
! roads, and also many other prominent
issues, are fully and thoroughly examined,
in their connection with unvarying natural
laws and principles. 1t is shown clearly
that the business world is permeated by
natural law, and that success in any de-
partment can only be gained by conformity
to it. The opposing combinations, unions,
| corners, unwarranted legislation, senti-
| mental and socialistic ideas, and everything
else of an artificial nature, are shown to be
mischievous, destructive and on false
| basis.
Whats To Be Done" is the title of a
| remarkable romance by W. G. Tcherny-
chewsky, translated by Benz. r. Tucker of
Boston, who is also the publisher. Tcher-
nychewsky was one of Russias political
victims, and the volume before US is the
only romance be ever attempted. 1t is the
strangest mixture possible to conceive of
love, hatred, politics, diplomacy and So
cialism. 1t has nothing of the orderly in
its arrangement. If it conforms to single
rule of narrative we fail to discover it. 1t
is hectic nervous, jerky, and ill-arranged
and tempestuously involved story, the die
ton of which Cffends while it amuses, and
attracts at one instant and repels at the
next. Tchernychewsky was sent to Siberia
broken in health but defiant in spirit The
Russian Nihilists are sal by Mr.. Tucker
to regard the present work as a faithful
portraiture of themselves and their move
ments. With all its faults of arrangement,
Involvement of plot offensiveness of style
and spasmodic method generally, ii is a
story that holds one in profound interest
to the close. 1t is great in its wonderful
power to interest, weak and pitiful in the
vehicles of expression chosen, and annoy
ingly offensive in the method adopted for
presenting its thrillingly dramatic plot.
Some months ago there passed through
! this city Thomas Stevens, upon trip
around the world on bicycle. The first
volume of the narrative of his travels and
adventures is now before us. 1t is royal
octave, very profusely illustrated and ex-
cellently printed, and covers the wheel
mans travels from San Francisco to and
through Persia, closing with the reception
accorded him by the Shah and the wonder
| full interest he and his wheel awakened in
Teheran. Another volume is to follow
this shortly. Mr.. Stevens sketches well,
writes without much effort, is a keen OBJ
server and sees and tells of MANY things
| the traveller by ordinary means of locomo-
| ton would not be so likely to observe.
Some of his recitals are very humorous
His adventures were many and his hair
breadth escapes numbered by the hundred.
1t is altogether most entertaining volume,
and conveys in gossipy way great deal
of very interesting information. Charles
Scribner's Sons. 81.
Jouh ID alueu, NeW OTk, mas issued
eil-printed volume as one of the Rus
kin Series" entitled "Art and Nature;
Rnskin Anthology" 1t is compiled by
/ VIM. Sloane Kennedy. 1t is an excellent
arrangement, according to subjects of the
| gems of thought found in Ruskin's MANY
writings. These embrace all subjects
| political, social, artistic and architectural,
| upon which the eminent critic has written.
The volume seems admirable as a thought
suggester, if such term is pardonable, for
the ideas of Ruskin are never obscure in
expression, or in any respect heavy. They
are like torches-they ignite and kindie
others. They command attention and de-
| mand criticism with confidence in their
| strength that is as sturdy as the character
of the grand and good man whose genius
gives them to the world
The Great Hesper," is story of re-
markablefnterest Its scenes are English.
of the African diamond fields and Cali
| fornia. The plot, which is one of thrilling
melodramatic interest, hinges upon the
| loss of a large diamond-"The Great
Hesper and the crime of one of three
| partners in its ownership. the criminal be-
ing nyctalops-one who can see family in
| the dark, but not at all in the light. Thus
passing as blind, he was enabled to commit
strange crimes without suspicion attaching
to him. A more melodramatic concep0
ton we do not remember to have met with.
d. Appleton & Co., New York. 25 cents.
"a Secret of the Sea-, g Perturbed spir-
its, Love at First Sight" Brief as
Woman's Love, Perchance to Dream"
F" Esther Feverel," are short stories in a
volume under the title of the first. by
Brander Matthews, whose writings are well
known, and call for no further remark than
to say that he, more than any other mod
ern writer. possesses the art of telling a
story according to the old style. He is
original witty and dramatic. and his short
stories are among the best of the age. New
York: Chas. Scribner e. Sons; San Fran
cisco: the Bancroft Company.
The contents of the Sacramento Medi-
cal Times " for August are " Albuminuria
and Its Bearing on Life Insurance" by DIR.
W. r. Cluness; A Case of Lacivation of |
the Liver, with Atopsy," DR.. J. A. Mckee
:" Diseases of Women and Children" DIR. |
w. A: Briggs; Surgery and Pathology" |
DR.. 7. w. Huntington; Ophthamology, |
Otholoey and Larynology," DR.. w. L
Briggs; = Therapeutics, Dernatology and |
Venereal Diseases" Dr. Crocker Simmons
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